The Coming Plague Wars

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Typhoon
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Re: The Coming Plague Wars

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Carbizene wrote:
You're forgetting Jim Jones and Adolf Hitler, when the Cult died they died.
True. However, both faced the imminent alternative of capture, trial, and execution.

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hoxha, and Kim Il-sung all died of old age.
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Re: The Coming Plague Wars

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Zack Morris wrote:
Typhoon wrote: 1/ anthrax is naturally virulent rather than a designer microbe; and
Sure but is it easy to obtain in concentrated form? Is it likely those attacks were carried out by angry Saudi twenty-somethings? I doubt it.
2/ is that it is highly unlikely that the accused was the perpetrator.
The fact that he remains a plausible suspect and that this case has not been definitely settled ought to be enough to sow doubt about oversight in laboratories.
I agree. There are some interesting details that indicate the perpetrator may be connected to the bio-defense establishment.
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